Well at some point your child is going to face some challenges in life and one of the most

assuring things for your child to know is no matter what mom dad they dad, they're safe. I can turn to them. But how can you foster

that sense of being an encouraging safe place? I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny

Werta who heads up our parenting team and we're going to hear now from Dr. Randy Schrader.

He's a counselor and author and speaker and he talked to Focus President Jim Daly about what it looks

like to be a source of inspiration and

encouragement to your child. You know Randy along those lines the whole

culture is fear-based about what could happen so how do we fight that? How do we how do we assume that our

kids actually can get bumps and scrapes and difficulties can happen to them and

they'll be okay? I think just recognizing that that's a normal part of life. You know when the three of us grew up

kids may have picked on us at recess. Should we say it? We didn't have seatbelt when we were kids

Yeah, yeah. That's how old we are.

Yeah, and so those bumps and bruises happen.

But a lot of times parents, again, it's because they're so loving, Christian parents are loving,

and they want the best for their kids. And yet that is not going back to what we said earlier

building a strong internal character. It's not helping a child stay determined and

you think about a baby, a baby falls or stumbles falls and rises back up.

A baby stumbles, falls, rises back up.

And eventually that baby learns to walk.

Likewise, even in preschool, elementary, high school,

kids need to learn to rise back up

and be individuals about and with God's help they can do that.

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